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Moseley Braun, also a former U.S. ambassador to New Zealand and the first African-American woman to serve in the Senate, encouraged the audience to pass on knowledge to younger generations, in order to preserve history and to progress to a more understanding future.
It was ordinary people who collectively formed cross the movement, she said. It was the activities of those people as individuals that created the macro force that historians and all of us will remember.
People came out tonight for this, people are marching for an end to police brutality, for an end to income inequality, they are focusing in on asking the right questions to their government, she said.
He had courage to take on the status quo, she said. He had courage cross to give of himself and stand up against horrible, horrible odds to make a difference for good, and that s the most important part.
Among the audience members were University President Morton Schapiro and Evanston cross Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl. Schapiro cross said it was an honor to have Moseley Braun speak at the vigil and encouraged the NU community to follow Moseley Braun s advice.
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